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1924réf. 557577New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Two volumes. Black cloth stamped in red red and black patterned endpapers. A few pages with small stains bindings with modest general wear spines slightly faded very good lacking the scarce dust jackets. Owner name of scholar and educator Porter Lander MacClintock on the endpaper and first page of each volume. MacClintock taught at John Dewey's Laboratory School of the University of Chicago. A fictional novel chronicling the decline of a wealthy German family. This was the author's first novel and subsequent Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1929. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1935réf. 2132622/04/1935. This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never been offered for sale before In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of Lübeck and their times. It was Mann’s first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author’s body of work the Swedish Academy’s citation for Mann identified “his great novel Buddenbrooks” as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner’s in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns. The League of American Writers was established by the First American Writers Congress a gathering held from April 26–28 1935. It was an association of American novelists playwrights poets journalists and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA in 1935. The group included Communist Party members and so-called ""fellow travelers"" who closely followed the Communist Party's political line without being formal party members as well as individuals sympathetic to specific policies being advocated by the parrty. In 1933 after the takeover of the Nazi party while travelling in the South of France Mann heard from his eldest children Klaus and Erika in Munich that it would not be safe for him to return to Germany. The family except these two children emigrated to Küsnacht near Zürich Switzerland but received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in 1936. Typed letter signed April 22 1935 to Hart his publisher. ""It is not easy for me to answer your suggestion in regards to this business news. I have read very carefully the appeal of the American writer’s congress. However I have unsurmountable concerns about contributing a statement to the congress. In the second half of the appeal there is mention of ‘civil liberties’. It stands in logical contradiction to all previous statements which have a purely communist character. A telegram on my part as you have asked me to send would be a clear support of communism which I am not able to force myself to give. I have a true love of civil liberties as much as I am against fascism and war. I much prefer the communist revolution to that of the fascists. Nevertheless the wording of this appeal and the political orientation it lends to this congress does not allow me to follow your wishes to send a note of unrestricted sympathy to the congress. I beg you to understand and not interpret my position as a lack of courage. It is an act of good conscience of what is my duty and what is not. ""Earlier than planned my wife and I will have the opportunity to see you again. In June a little bit later than last time we will come to America and stay for a short while in New York."" This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never before been offered for sale. unknown books
1604réf. 1818816/04/1936. An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work 1936 was a momentous year for Mann. That year his escalated attacks on the Nazi government led to his German citizenship being revoked. He traveled to Argentina his maternal homeland for a PEN International Conference which was organized to bring peace and understanding between cultures using literature. In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of Lübeck and their times. It was Mann's first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author's body of work the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified ""his great novel Buddenbrooks"" as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later in July 1900 and published in October 1901. Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner's in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns. Typed letter signed in German to Hart April 16 1936. ""I am hurrying to acknowledge receipt of your check from August 25th and am happy that sales of the “Nocturnes” are gradually progressing. ""You have added some very personal notes to your letter hat I would like to address with a few words. The trip to Moscow I will definitely make but will have to postpone it for now since I have travel plans to Vienna and Budapest in the immediate future. For the summer I have agreed to travel to Bueno Aires for the PEN Club Congress. I had committed to this trip a while ago and therefore have to travel there first. This trip is especially enticing to me since it will take me to Rio de Janeiro. It is the home of my mother who often told me about the beauty of the coast when I was a child. ""I was very touched about what you told me regarding your repeated studies of the novel of my youth. I finished it when I was 25 years old. The young man who wrote that book in his solitude could not have dreamed that it would be his calling in life to influence the intellectual life of people in a foreign continent in a educating and encouraging way. From the bottom of my heart I wish you have happy and beautiful ideas for your work and am repeating my request to please send me a copy your book once it is printed."" unknown books
2005réf. 2323255New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Reprint. Top edge faintly foxed otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square interior clean bright and unmarked. 2005 Hard Cover. xii 465 pp. A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was for all practical purposes still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong. In a book that startles and persuades Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities - such as Tenochtitlan the Aztec capital - were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore Tenochtitlan unlike any capital in Europe at that time had running water beautiful botanical gardens and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first and perhaps the greatest feat of genetic engineering." Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it - a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2000réf. 227091Liberty: Short Mountain Collective 2000. 72p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1937réf. 22058Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology 1937. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth. Very good; some rubbing to the cloth. Royal 8vo 12. 1 - 444 pp. and illustrations throughout. After qualifying Mann decided to specialize in ophthalmology and took her first post under Leslie Paton at St Mary's becoming FRCS in 1924. She also held several teaching appointments while she progressed up the ladder towards consultant ophthalmologist status reaching the highest point in 1927 with appointment as senior surgeon on the staff of Moorfields Eye Hospital London the first woman ever to do so. At the same time she established a Harley Street practice and consolidated herself as a leading clinical ophthalmologist in London but still carried on her developmental studies and teaching including the diploma course in Oxford. In this period up to the Second World War she learned and promoted the then new technique of slit-lamp microscopy of the eye applying it both to patients and to animals in the London Zoo. She was also instrumental in bringing to London in 1938 Josef Dallos the Hungarian pioneer of glass contact lenses just ahead of the Nazi take-over of Hungary and with him she established the first contact lens centre in the United Kingdom At the instigation of Sir Hugh Cairns Mann moved to Oxford in 1941 to undertake the clinical training of medical students diverted from London and there she was appointed to Margaret Ogilvy's readership in ophthalmology as well as a personal chair the first woman ever to hold the title of professor in the University of Oxford and a professorial fellowship in St Hugh's College In this period she was the first to use penicillin to treat ocular infection. See ODNB; G-M #5987. Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology hardcover books
1816réf. 22014Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Very good; paper spine abraded in places affecting the label; some toning but internally a clean copy; front board present but detached; verso of the title page with a library release - but no accessioning. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-'06; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1816réf. 22029Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Fine bright copy with no foxing or spotting; a superb copy. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-806; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1988réf. 184064New York: Bantam 1988. Softcover. Fine. Rep. Fine in wrappers. Bantam unknown books
1976réf. 627717Lincoln University Pennsylvania: Lincoln University 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 616pp. A bit of foxing on the page edges and endpapers else near fine in modestly rubbed very good dust jacket. A history of the traditionally Black college by Bond an author and educator who served as president of Lincoln University and who was also the father of political and civil rights activist Julian Bond. A nice copy and very scarce. Lincoln University hardcover books
1979réf. 211445Baltimore: Women a Journal of Liberation 1979. Magazine. 72p. 8.5x11 inches photos art essays poetry resources news actions very good lightly worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes a commentary on female circumcision. Women, a Journal of Liberation unknown books
2006réf. 2349071Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. 127 1 pp. "Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived played studied worked and worshiped. The images are from the town and village archives the Victor Historical Society the Ontario County Historical Society and private collections. Many are previously unpublished photographs and several are by Fred Locke an amateur photographer who is considered to be "the father of porcelain insulators. Arcadia Publishing paperback books
1845réf. 2341534Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson 1845. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor cosmetic wear a couple pages toned. 1845 Hard Cover. 144; 16; 176; 59 pp. Four works bound in one hardcover volume. Brown leather spine marbled paper over boards gilt titles. A collection of publications related to Horace Mann's response to criticisms of his educational reforms to promote non-denominational common school systems. Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson hardcover books
1998réf. 2342503New York: Penguin Books 1998. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 7x5x0. First printing. Ink name on blurb page some pages lightly wrinkled. 1998 Trade Paperback. xlvii 240 pp. Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga Facundo is also a complex passionate work of history sociology and political commentary and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character a prescription for the modernization of Latin America and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas 1835–1852. The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today—questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside the treatment of indigenous and African populations and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo’s celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making. Penguin Books paperback books
1962réf. 2331140London: British Publications Inc 1962. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Small tear along top edge of front cover. 1962 Soft Cover. 95 pp. Includes: Letters by Thomas Mann; Life in the Industrial North by Marcus Cunliffe; Has Switzerland a Future by Herbert Luethy; Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Bertrand de Jouvenel; "And Thou Beside Me Singing" by Nigel Dennis; After Cuba Berlin by Richard Lowenthal; Going Into Europe: A Symposium; Folding Chairs by Gunter Grass; Cathedral Town by John Montague; James Son and Spice by James Reeves; Morning by Harry Fainlight; How Art Writing Earns Its Bad Name by Clement Greenberg; James Agee by Dwight Macdonald; Canetti's Crowd by George Steiner; Unamuno's Sense of Life by J.M. Cohen; Letters; Authors. British Publications Inc paperback books
1989réf. 2309951New York: Vintage International 1989. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Front wrapper creased along spine ink marks on bottom page ridge minor pencil underlining. 1989 Trade Paperback. 402 pp. "Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself" highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. Vintage International paperback books
1938réf. 123926New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has little shelfwear and some age toning ; Joseph is a man of faith and strength in a time of great turmoil. The Pharaohs officials make numerous attempts to kill him but he survives. The Pharaohs dreams and the interpretation given by the wise men help Joseph to understand the situation and to secure his familys safety. Finally Pharaoh allows Joseph to take the Pharaohs daughter and her husband as prisoners to Egypt. Joseph is able to interpret Pharaohs dreams and save the people of Egypt.; Vol. 1; 8vo; 369 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1938réf. 124173New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine. 1938. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. A Later Printing in Near Fine condition with negligible wear ; The first volume in Mann's two volume story of Joseph in Egypt; Vol. 2; 664 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1937réf. 70878Washington D. C.: National Education Association of the United States. Very Good. 1937. Facsimile. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition in Very Good condition with minor wear and some tanning. There is a previous owner's stamp on the front flyleaf ; This is the biography of Horace Mann one of the most influential educators in American history. Mann was born in Massachusetts in 1796 and died in 1859. He was a teacher scholar and reformer and is best known for his work on education reform. Mann's life and work are an important part of American history.; 8vo ; 609 610-614 pages . National Education Association of the United States hardcover books
1948réf. 70875New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Fourth Printing. Laminated Boards. Edition in Near Fine condition with some tanning to the pages in a Very Good dust-jacket with sunning and tearing. There is a publisher's stain to the top page edge ; One of Thomas Mann's most important works his account of the life and work of the brilliant composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by his childhood friend the philologist Serenus Zeitblom. Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter; 8vo ; vi 510 10 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1966réf. 52115New York: Abelard-Schuman. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first US edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike lightly scuffed dust-jacket; Translated from the French by Neil Mann; 8vo; 184 pages . Abelard-Schuman hardcover books
1983réf. 101411Garden City: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. Later Printing. Hardcover. No Man's Island tells the story of four boys during World War II who are stranded on a small and isolated island in the Pacific. The boys must find a way to survive and escape the island before it is captured by the Japanese military.; 8vo; $6.00 . Doubleday hardcover books
1961réf. 34159London: Secker & Warburg. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1961. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A lovely first British edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; The Nobel Prize winner's tale of a young solitary's rise to world fame. Translated from the original German 1930 publication "Lebensabriss" by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Subsequently published in English in 1930 in a limited edition by Harrison of Paris; 8vo ; 4 5-87 1 pages . Secker & Warburg hardcover books
2017réf. 337838New York: Abrams 2017. hardcover. fine/fine. Profusely illustrated in color. 253 pages. Small folio navy blue cloth d.w. New York: Abrams 2017. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Abrams unknown books
1924réf. 1392175New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 2 Volumes. In Good plus condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket only on Volume 2. Volume 1 has black spine with blood red lettering. Volume 2 has a dark tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "2 Volumes $5.00" has mild shelving wear small open tears along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges stains on the rear cover and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild bending wear along the fore corners and spines head and tail edges fraying along the spine of Volume 1 and small stains throughout. Textblock of Volume 1 has the second free end-page mostly loose splitting to gutter from pages 6-72 and 233-296 illustrated end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Textblock of Volume 2 has splitting to gutter from page 88-218 indents on the front end-page illustrated end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. CONTENTS: Vol. 1 "Buddenbrooks Vol. I" 389 pages -- Vol. 2 "Buddenbrooks Vol. II" price uncut "2 Volumes $5.00 net" 359 pages. DL consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1392175. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
